Favorite Quotes Compiled and Edited by Richard Davies, 2017.
Everything hinges upon our realizing the essential transitory possibilities.
-Viktor Frankl
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
-Henri Matisse
Nature never did betray/The heart that loved her.
-William Wordsworth
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is the law of life.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We make up ourselves as we go.
-Kate Green
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
-Henry David Thoreau
The dollar is always betting against the soul.
-Sven Birkerts
Technology will never love you. Screens will never love you.
-Richard Davies
Turning our backs on the full sensory business of living, we have installed another proxy-world.
-Sven Birkerts
The time is out of joint.
-William Shakespeare
Shallowness spreads.
-Daniel Liebert
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
-Thomas Carlyle
Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.
-Brendan Francis
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
-Joseph Campbell
Be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
-Buddha
Do I dare eat a peach?
-T.S. Eliot
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
-Bertrand Russell
A man can do all things if he will.
-Leon Battista Alberti
I sometimes think I inhabit my own country.
-Tennessee Williams
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
-Galileo
The proper study of mankind is books.
-Aldous Huxley
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-Rudyard Kipling
Music is the best means of digesting time.
-W.H. Auden
Art serves to rinse out our eyes.
-Karl Kraus
Genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
-Matthew Arnold
We live in the hope that authentic meeting between human beings can still occur.
-R.D. Laing
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key.
-Pearl Buck
Enthusiasm is life.
-Paul Scofield
All vigor is contagious.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars are in one’s brain.
-Bertrand Russell
I love a broad margin to my life.
-Henry David Thoreau
That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
-Willa Cather
Cheer up–it can only get worse.
-Pearl Bailey